Enhancing biological control of sugarcane shoot borer, chilo infuscatellus (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), through use of radiation to improve laboratory rearing and field augmentation of egg and larval parasitoids

Biocontrol Science and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 277-290

  Fatima, Bilquis ^a   Ahmad, Nazir ^a   Memon, Raza Muhammad ^a   Bux, Moula ^a   Ahmad, Qadeer ^a  

^a NUCLEAR INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND BIOLOGY NIAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Area wide; Augmentative biological control; Biological management; Chilo infuscatellus; Cotesia flavipes; Endoparasitoid; Parasitoids; Radiation; Rearing; Sugarcane shoot borer; Supplemental hosts; Trichogramma chilonis

Indexed keywords

CHILO INFUSCATELLUS; COTESIA FLAVIPES; DIATRAEA SACCHARALIS; LEPIDOPTERA; PYRALIDAE; SITOTROGA CEREALELLA; TRICHOGRAMMA CHILONIS;

EID: 80054809533     PISSN: 09583157     EISSN: 13600478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09583150902793438     Document Type: Article

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